絃

xián
  1. variant of 弦
  2. bow string
  3. string of musical instrument
  4. watch spring
  5. chord (straight line joining two points on a curve)
  6. hypotenuse

CEDICT

alternative form of 弦 (“string on a musical instrument”)

Wiktionary

  1. 装于乐器以弹奏发声的丝、线。
  2. 弦乐器。
  3. 音调、音律。
  4. 比喻为妻子。参见「续絃」条。

重編國語辭典

Homographs

絃 xuàn

Containing this entry

弦鸣乐器 xiánmíngyuèqì
四股弦 sìgǔxián
象鼻四弦 xiàngbísìxián
五弦 wǔxián
鹍鸡弦 kūnjīxián

Related entries

弦 xián
  1. bow string
  2. string of musical instrument
  3. watchspring
  4. chord (segment of curve)
  5. hypotenuse

classifier: 根

專家就好像一台只有一根弦的小提琴一樣。

Specialists are people who have only one string on their violin.

Source: Tatoeba

和弦 héxián (music) chord
我聽來聽去也聽不到一分五十八秒左右的那個和弦是甚麼和弦，有人可以幫幫我嗎？

I can't quite figure out what that chord around 1:58 is. Can somebody help me out?

Source: Tatoeba

斜边 xiébiān
  1. sloping side
  2. hypotenuse (of a right-angled triangle)